“Despite disagreements”, the mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard, close to the National Gathering, officially brought his sponsorship on Friday to the RN presidential candidate Marine Le Pen. “We do not have to agree on everything to work together,” he said at a press conference, ensuring that we now have “much less” disagreements with the representative of the National Assembly.
“I had unfair words towards you (…) but at the same time, things have changed. The National Rally is not the National Front, ”added the mayor of Béziers. “A few years ago you were more divisive than you are” but “Marine, she is doing a very different campaign from 2017, she has taken on a different dimension, she embodies the presidential function better”, he said greeted.
“My goal is not to look for clones”
“We can work together when we have disagreements”, added Marine Le Pen, reiterating the desire for a government “of national unity, which presupposes disagreements”. “My goal is not to look for clones, it is to convince beyond” the RN, to which Robert Ménard has never joined.
“Robert had harsh words for me but you have to accept it” and “be able to go above oneself to put in place the conditions of the rally”, she added. The two far-right officials had already sealed their reconciliation on February 16, 2021.
Discrepancies on the vaccination pass
Friday they did not hide their differences, for example on the vaccine pass, supported by Robert Ménard and contested by Marine Le Pen, or on political divisions. “I believe in a right-left cleavage”, said the elected representative of Hérault, defender of a “union of the rights”. “Me no,” the RN candidate replied.
Robert Ménard reiterated his wish for a meeting in February between Marine Le Pen or Eric Zemmour, so that they agree to withdraw in favor of the best placed. The mayor of Béziers had received on October 16 in his town Éric Zemmour for a conference that looked like a meeting, where the former columnist had wished to “remove the power (to) counter-powers” such as “justice, the media, minorities ”.
